QWERTY: Actor Tom Hanks has a book deal for a collection of stories inspired by his typewriter collection.

Apparently Mr. Nice Guy Hanks is in reality so intimidating that no one dares to tell him that’s a really terrible idea for a book.

Election day: More than 18.6 million Americans in 32 states already have cast ballots in the midterm elections, a significant increase over early voting in 2010, when Republicans took control of the House.

Nervous Democrats urged President Barack Obama to keep his distance from the nation’s mail carriers, just in case.